INVEST IN INDIANA, NOT ENDLESS WAR

Washington always seems to find money for another war, another weapons package, another military contractor, or another foreign government.

But when Hoosier families need affordable healthcare, better schools, childcare, housing, help keeping the family farm, or support for a small business, suddenly politicians want to know how we are going to pay for it.

Our priorities are backwards.

American foreign policy should protect the American people, defend our country, pursue peace, and keep us out of unnecessary wars.

We will stop pouring American lives and money into permanent war and start investing those resources here at home.

End the Forever Wars

For more than two decades, Washington has dragged America from one war to another, from Afghanistan and Iraq to Libya, Syria, Yemen, Gaza, and Iran, at an enormous cost in lives, money, and global stability.

Presidents of both parties have expanded military operations while Congress has repeatedly surrendered its constitutional responsibility to decide when America goes to war.

That has to end.

We will repeal outdated war authorizations and require Congress to vote before the United States enters sustained military conflicts overseas.

Emergency action to defend Americans from an imminent attack must remain possible. Permanent war by presidential decree should not.

If Congress will not vote for a war, America should not be fighting it.

End America's Role in the War in Gaza

American taxpayers should not be financing the destruction of Palestinian families.

We will end American weapons transfers and military assistance used to carry out the destruction of Gaza and oppose continued U.S. support for policies that amount to collective punishment, forced displacement, starvation, or the mass killing of civilians.

American weapons should never be used to commit human-rights abuses or violations of international law.

This is not hostility toward Jewish people or the Israeli people. It is opposition to using American money and weapons to arm a government carrying out devastating violence against Palestinians.

We will support humanitarian aid, reconstruction, diplomacy, Palestinian freedom and self-determination, and genuine security for both Palestinians and Israelis.

Not another American bomb for the destruction of Gaza.

End the Blank Check to Israel

Israel is a wealthy nation with one of the most sophisticated militaries in the world.

American working families should not be required to provide billions of dollars every year to subsidize another country's military while our own communities struggle to pay for schools, hospitals, roads, farms, housing, and public services.

We will end unconditional military aid to Israel.

Any future assistance must comply with American law, international humanitarian law, and basic human-rights standards.

Foreign governments do not have an automatic claim on American taxpayer money.

Our first responsibility is to the people we were elected to represent.

Keep the American Military Independent

The United States can have allies without merging our military infrastructure with another country's defense establishment.

We oppose policies that make America's military increasingly dependent on Israeli weapons systems, military technology, intelligence networks, joint production arrangements, or permanent defense infrastructure.

American military strategy must be based on American interests.

American soldiers must remain under American command.

American defense policy must be determined by the American people and their elected representatives.

Cooperation with an ally is one thing.

Building a military-industrial system that becomes inseparable from another government's foreign policy is another.

Stop the Military-Industrial Complex From Running Foreign Policy

Weapons manufacturers profit when the United States prepares for war, enters wars, sends weapons overseas, and then replaces the weapons it gave away.

That creates an obvious conflict between what is profitable for defense contractors and what is best for the American people.

We will crack down on the revolving door between the Pentagon, Congress, lobbying firms, and defense contractors.

Senior military and defense officials should not be able to award billions of dollars in contracts and then leave government for lucrative positions with the companies that received them.

We will also require greater transparency around defense contracts, weapons transfers, lobbying expenditures, and political spending by companies seeking Pentagon business.

Foreign policy should be designed to keep Americans safe, not keep defense contractors profitable.

Keep Tech Oligarchs From Taking Over the Military

A new military-industrial complex is emerging around artificial intelligence, mass surveillance, cloud computing, autonomous weapons, facial recognition, drones, and private data systems.

Some of the wealthiest technology executives in the world increasingly want their companies embedded into the basic infrastructure of American government and national defense.

That creates enormous risks.

Private corporations should not become so deeply integrated into the military that elected leaders cannot govern without them.

We will require strong congressional oversight of military contracts involving artificial intelligence, surveillance, autonomous weapons, data systems, and other emerging technologies.

Critical military systems must remain accountable to the public rather than dependent on the personal politics, business interests, or whims of billionaire technology executives.

We will also require meaningful human control over lethal military decisions.

No billionaire should become more powerful than the government that hired him.

Keep the Technofascists Away From the Social Safety Net

The same tech oligarchs seeking billions of dollars in military and government contracts should not be given the power to gut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' benefits, disability programs, food assistance, or other programs Americans depend on.

We reject the idea that billionaires should be invited into government, given access to enormous amounts of public data, and allowed to decide which programs working people deserve.

Efficiency cannot become an excuse for privatization.

Technology cannot become an excuse for eliminating due process.

And artificial intelligence should never be allowed to automatically deny someone healthcare, disability benefits, food assistance, or retirement income without meaningful human review.

The social safety net belongs to the people who paid into it, not the tech oligarchs looking for something else to dismantle.

Stop Privatizing Government Through Technology

Government should use technology.

Technology companies should not govern.

We will prevent private technology contractors from gaining unchecked access to Americans' Social Security information, health records, financial data, immigration records, military information, or other sensitive government databases.

Major government technology contracts will require transparency, cybersecurity safeguards, privacy protections, public oversight, and strict limits on how companies can use government data.

The federal government should never become dependent on one billionaire's company to perform basic public functions.

Public power must remain publicly accountable.

Bring War Powers Back to Congress

The Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide when the country goes to war.

For decades, Congress has allowed presidents to stretch old military authorizations far beyond their original purpose.

We will repeal outdated Authorizations for Use of Military Force and require explicit congressional approval for sustained hostilities overseas.

Members of Congress should have to cast a public vote before sending American troops into another war.

They should have to explain that vote to the people who elected them.

No authorization. No war.

Invest in Hoosiers Instead

Every dollar represents a choice.

Money spent subsidizing another country's military cannot also repair a bridge in Indiana, keep a rural hospital open, help a family afford childcare, support a farmer, or create a good-paying job here at home.

We will redirect federal priorities toward the people and communities that actually need the investment.

That means funding affordable healthcare, rural hospitals, public schools, teacher pay, universal pre-K, childcare, paid family and medical leave, affordable housing, roads, bridges, clean water, broadband, Social Security, Medicare, and veterans' services.

It also means supporting Indiana farmers through regenerative agriculture, soil conservation, local food processing, stronger protections against agricultural monopolies, and programs that help family farms stay in family hands.

We will invest in Indiana small businesses and manufacturing through affordable lending, Buy American requirements, downtown revitalization, rural broadband, federal contracting opportunities, and an industrial policy that creates good union jobs building the things our communities actually need, including medical equipment, agricultural machinery, public transit, energy infrastructure, semiconductors, and housing materials.

And we will fully fund veterans' healthcare, disability benefits, mental-health services, housing, and job support. Washington should never have unlimited money to send someone to war and then suddenly become fiscally responsible when that veteran comes home.

National security is not just a Pentagon budget.

It is whether families can afford healthcare.

It is whether farmers can keep their land.

It is whether small businesses can survive.

It is whether veterans are taken care of.

It is whether Indiana workers have good jobs that do not depend on another war starting somewhere overseas.

We should be rebuilding Indiana, not subsidizing permanent war.